Green Room

No worries. She’ll only be a placeholder until someone from the next generation of Kennedy sub-mediocrity is ready to serve.

The President has not made a choice on his next nominee for Secretary of State yet, but Governor Deval Patrick is already making plans to fill presumptive SecState nominee John Kerry’s Senate seat. Knowledgeable sources tell me Governor Patrick has already had a discussion with one potential replacement for Senator Kerry: Vicki Kennedy. The sources say the governor talked to Kennedy, the widow of Senator Ted Kennedy, about the possibility of replacing Kerry in the Senate and that she did not rule it out. But don’t count on seeing another Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts any time soon: a source close to Vicki Kennedy says she would be unlikely to accept the appointment. But again, she has not ruled it out. If Kerry is nominated and confirmed as Secretary of State, Governor Patrick would appoint somebody to replace Kerry and, under Massachusetts law, a special election would be held no later than 160 days (and no earlier than 145 days) after Kerry leaves the Senate.

It’s a testament to how popular Scott Brown is, and how surprisingly thin the Democrats’ bench is in Massachusetts, that the party’s best bet to hold Kerry’s seat is a member of the royal family by marriage, not even by blood. It’d be a gesture towards honesty if Patrick went ahead and appointed “________ Kennedy” and then let the family fill in the blank.

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As Vicki Kennedy has no history of cheating on/physically abusing/mentally abusing/ driving to suicide/plain ol’ outright killing or somehow otherwise mistreating women, she is unqualified to be a ‘Kennedy-in-Office.’

Dumb political move by the Dems. Why not just appoint the probable nominee (whoever that is) and give him/her a chance to run for election as an incumbent? That worked for Dean Heller in Nevada, even though Obama carried the state.

Ehh, I wouldn’t be that surprised if the next dem they dig up beats Brown. I mean hell, you could argue it took the fact that Coakley’s people openly assault people in the street before here in Mass they thought “Geez, maybe she isn’t qualified.”

One finds it hard to believe there is no more commies in Massachusetts that they have to go back to the dry well just one more time. Let that be a lesson it took 100 years to make Massachusetts what it is and to expect a far right to win anytime in the next 25 years is just to much. Having RINO Brown voting right 7 out 10 time is well worth it to the commie chief vote commie 10 out of 10 times.

Remember that in the 2014 as well some places are lost for still lost for some time and get it back one step out of a thousand is worth it even with RINOs

Well, uh, I’m the kind of guy
Who likes to roam around
I’m never in one place
I roam from town to town
And when I find myself falling for some girl
I hop right into that car of mine
And take her for a whirl
Because I’m a Kennedy
I’m Ted Kennedy
The car spins round and round and round and round.